This master's thesis examines the utility of Edward Fry's 23 syllabication generalizations. To validate these rules, two sets of one thousand words each were selected, one set containing "easy" words taken from the Word Frequency Book, the second set containing "hard" words taken randomly from the Thorndike Barnhart Advanced Dictionary. Syllabication of all the words was determined by graphic and phonetic divisions, and a set of criteria (Clymer, 1963) was used to evaluate the Fry generalizations as they applied to syllabication in the word lists. Based on comparisons between easy and hard word divisions, phonetic and graphic divisions, and findings from other studies, this study concludes that all the Fry syllabication generalizations can be used in instructional strategies, though two generalizations might be more useful as subsidiaries to other generalizations, and seven generalizations achieved marginal utility levels. (Author/RL)